CNSTAT’s regular meetings in May and October traditionally include a public seminar on a topic of interest to the Washington statistical and economic measurement community. Ranging from keynote addresses to panel discussions, seminars have addressed crosscutting topics in federal and private survey research (such as general increases in nonresponse) and production of statistics (such as discrepant—and seemingly competing—estimates of social and economic phenomena). Economic topics have also been spotlighted, such as possibilities for national time accounting.

In addition to these public seminars, CNSTAT staff and committee volunteers participate at various professional association conferences and meetings, disseminating the work and activities of the Committee on National Statistics. CNSTAT has also been a regular sponsor of similar activities such as the Morris Hansen Lecture.

October 21, 2016Taking Surveys to People’s Technology: Implications for Federal Statistics and Social Science ResearchPresentations

May 6, 2016Combining Information from Survey and Non-Survey Data Sources for Policy Research: Challenges and OpportunitiesPresentations

October 23, 2015Reengineering the 2020 CensusIntroduction: Katherine Wallman, U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Discussant: Donald Dillman, CNSTAT Member and Washington State UniversityPresentation

May 8, 2015

Can Government-Academic Partnerships Help Secure the Future of the Federal Statistical System? Examples from the NSF-Census Research NetworkIntroduction: Katherine Wallman, U.S. Office of Management and Budget; Robert Groves, Georgetown University Presenters: John M. Abowd, Cornell University; Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon UniversityPresentation

October 24, 2014Measuring Dimensions of Subjective Well-Being: The Role of Official StatisticsIntroduction: Lisbeth Nielsen, National Institute on AgingPresenters: Arthur Stone, University of Southern California; Ed Humpherson, UK Statistics Authority; Carol Graham, The Brookings Institution AnnouncementPresentations

May 9, 2014The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of InequalitySpeaker: Angus Deaton, Princeton UniversityDiscussants: David Johnson, Bureau of Economic Analysis; Samuel Preston, University of PennsylvaniaAnnouncement